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...York Yankees paid an estimated $40,000 to transport 215 pounds of first baseman across the Harlem River August 22. John Mize paid it all back in Ebbets Field yesterday afternoon with a ninth-inning, bases-loaded pinch hit single that beat the Dodgers...
...Mize, pinch-hitting for Mapes, knocked in two runs with a single, Branca headed for the showers, and Jack Banta came in to pitch to Gorry Coleman, whose base-clearing Texas League double had provided the three runs that gave the Yanks the pennant Sunday...
...John Mize singled as a pinch-hitter for Silvera in the eighth, and Snuffy Stirnweiss went in the ran for him, but Bobby Brown, in for Raschi, struck out. Gus Niarhos came in to catch the ninth
...Boston Braves, 1948 pennant winners, would lean again on the strong right arm of Johnny Sain (TIME, April 11), the best pitcher to come along since V-J day. In other camps, managers were racking their brains to plug holes in their lineups. The New York Giants had Johnny Mize and some other fence-busters, but Manager Leo Durocher was willing to put a pricetag on Mize or almost anybody else if it would bring him pitching. There seemed to be no eager bidders. No one had any marketable pitchers, and burly old (36) Johnny Mize was a property...
...home-run-hitting John Mize might never have been a big leaguer but for Doc Hyland. The Cincinnati Reds passed him up 13 years ago when another doctor discovered an old pelvic injury (the result of riding mules bareback in his Georgia childhood). Doc Hyland operated and Big John did the rest...